Announcing 389 Directory Server 1.2.6 Alpha 2

[Rich Megginson]

The 389 team is pleased to announce the availability of Alpha 2 of 
version 1.2.6.  This release contains some major new features - Subtree 
Rename, SELinux policy, Matching Rules - as well as many bug fixes.

NOTE: Packages for Enterprise Linux are available from EPEL. We will no
longer have a separate yum repo for these packages.

***We need your help!  Please help us test this software.***  It is an 
Alpha release, so it may have a few glitches, but it has been tested for
regressions and for new feature bugs.  The Fedora system
strongly encourages packages to be in Testing until verified and pushed
to Stable.  If we don't get any feedback while the packages are in
Testing, the packages will remain in limbo, or get pushed to Stable.

The more testing we get, the faster we can release these packages to 
Stable.  See the Release Notes for information about how to provide 
testing feedback (or just send an email to 
389-users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org).

The packages that need testing are:
* 389-ds-base-1.2.6.a2 - 389-ds-base and 389-ds-base-selinux
* 389-admin-1.1.11.a2 - 389-admin and 389-admin-selinux
* 389-adminutil-1.1.10 - 389-adminutil
* 389-ds-1.2.0 - 389-ds

* Release Notes - http://port389.org/wiki/Release_Notes
* Install_Guide - http://port389.org/wiki/Install_Guide
* Download - http://port389.org/wiki/Download

=== New features ===
* Subtree Rename and Entry Move (modifyDN with newSuperior)
** https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429005
** ability to rename a node that has children
** ability to move a node, with or without children, to another parent node

* Security Enhancements
** [[SELinux_Policy|SELinux Policy]]
*** https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442228

* Matching rules
** support for all RFC 4517 matching rules (except the FirstComponent ones)

=== Bugs Fixed ===
This release contains a couple of bug fixes.  The complete list of bugs
fixed is found at the link below.  Note that bugs marked as MODIFIED
have been fixed but are still in testing.
This release contains many bug fixes.  The complete list of bugs fixed 
is found at the link below.  Note that bugs marked as MODIFIED have been 
fixed but are still in testing.
* Tracking bug for 1.2.6 release - 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=543590&hide_res...
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=171338 171338] 
Enhancement: winsync modrdn not synced
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434735 434735] SASL 
ANONYMOUS is broken in x86_64
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460162 460162] FedoraDS 
"with-FHS" installs init.d StartupScript in wrong location on 
non-RHEL/Fedora OS
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460168 460168] FedoraDS' 
adminutil requires non-existent "icu.pc" on non-RH/Fedora OS
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460209 460209] 
adminserver "./configure --help" error @ --with-apr-config
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498103 498103] [RFE] 
SELinux policy for the Directory Server
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506206 506206] problems 
linking with -z defs
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509201 509201] rhds81 
hub with 71 master - err=32 on replica base search during replication
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516611 516611] 389 DS 
segfaults on libsyntax-plugin.so
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518084 518084] Out of 
order retro change log records
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519459 519459] 
Semi-hardcoded include and lib directories in db.m4
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531929 531929] rhds8.1 
seg fault on null bvals in syntax plug-in
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=536703 536703] Red Hat 
Direct Directory Migration 7.1 -> 8.1 problems
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537466 537466] 
nsslapd-distribution-plugin should not require plugin name to begin with 
"lib"
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539618 539618] 
Replication bulk import reports Invalid read/write
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543080 543080] Bitwise 
plugin fails to return the exact matched entries for Bitwise search filter
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544089 544089] 
Referential Integrity Plugin does not take into account the attribute 
subtypes
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548115 548115] memory 
leak in schema reload
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548535 548535] memory 
leak in attrcrypt
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551198 551198] LDAPI: 
incorrect logging to access log
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552419 552419] 
389-admin-1.1.10-0.2.a2.el5 fails to start
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552421 552421] Cannot 
log into admin server after upgrade (fedora-ds-admin-1.1.6 -> 
389-admin-1.1.9
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553027 553027] Support 
for nsUniqueId and alias for additional retro changelog attributes
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554841 554841] 
Unitialized mutex in Retro Changelog Plugin.
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554887 554887] Net::LDAP 
password modify extop breaks; msgid in response is 0xFF
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555970 555970] seg fault 
maybe on cos or nsview changes and replication?
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558518 558518] several 
spelling errors
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559315 559315] Searching 
some attributes are now case sensitive when they were previously 
case-insensitive
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560827 560827] Admin 
Server: DistinguishName validation fails
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564876 564876] FTBFS 
389-ds-base-1.2.6-0.1.a1.fc13: ImplicitDSOLinking
** [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=568196 568196] Install 
DS8.2 on Solaris fails

389DS an Mac OS X 10.6

[Roland Schwingel]

Hi...

Finally I succeeded in setting up a 389 DS Server. I created a test user 
for now and established a connection to an OpenSuse Linux box.
I can log in as this user and everything is fine.

I also connected a Mac OS X 10.6 box to my 389ds server. It can see my 
test user. Eg. I can cd in the homefolder of that user
using 

cd ~username.

The mac os x dscl tool also sees my useraccount and all attributes there 
but I can't login in. I assume it does not accept the password.
Is there something known about this? I got no problems with OpenSuse 11.2 
and my 389ds useraccount.

Thanks in advance,

Roland